25 years ago: The Tiananmen Square protests

June 3, 2014

The image of the "Tank Man" is lodged in our collective memories of the Beijing student uprising of 1989, but many don't recall the events spanned over a month.

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A man tries to pull a Chinese soldier away from his comrades as thousands of Beijing's citizens turned out to block thousands of troops on their way towards Tiananmen Square early Saturday morning, June 3, 1989.

Mark Avery/AP

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A man tries to pull a Chinese soldier away from his comrades as thousands of Beijing's citizens turned out to block thousands of troops on their way towards Tiananmen Square early Saturday morning, June 3, 1989.